What Are Utility Patents?
Whether you’re an inventor who wants to protect his invention or you’re just interested in learning what a utility patent is, you’ve come to the right spot. The USPTO (United…
Whether you’re an inventor who wants to protect his invention or you’re just interested in learning what a utility patent is, you’ve come to the right spot. The USPTO (United…
Whether you’ve finished working on your invention or you’re still working on it, you might be wondering about protecting it with a provisional patent. We are here to tell you…
Inventors want to protect their invention as quickly as possible and display “patent pending” on their new invention or product to tell the world that they have taken the legal…
If you’ve just finished working on a design, you probably want to patent it. Patenting a design in the United States takes 20.5 months from the date an applicant files…
What Are Patent Claims? Patent claims are arguably the most important part of a patent application. Patent claims set out the aspects of the invention that the patent protects. Patent…
Patents are intellectual property rights that are granted to an inventor of a new invention, machine, process, design, or composition of matter. Patents protect inventions or designs from being copied…
What is Patent Infringement? At it’s most basic form, patent infringement is a wrong committed by a third party against the rights of a patent holder during the term of…
What is Patent Exhaustion? The patent exhaustion doctrine holds that once a patent holder sells a product in the United States, a patent holder’s rights with regards to the object…
What is Patent Prosecution? When some people hear the term patent prosecution, they think of the prosecution in a criminal matter, however, for patents, it’s quite different. Patent prosecution is…
If you have a great invention or design that you want to patent you probably heard that your invention has to be novel in order for it to qualify for…